Daily AI RSS Email Digest (OpenAI + SMTP) for n8n

Get a daily AI-powered RSS digest in your inbox—automatically

This n8n workflow fetches the latest items from your RSS feed every day, uses OpenAI to generate short 2–3 sentence summaries for the newest articles, and emails you a clean HTML + plain-text digest via SMTP.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily on a schedule to ensure you stay up to date without manual checking.
• Reads your configured RSS feed URL and fetches the latest items.
• Limits and deduplicates the batch (removes duplicate items), then sorts articles newest-first for relevance.
• Creates a compact snippet per article for summarization.
• Uses OpenAI (chat model) to generate a short summary (2–3 sentences) for each newest item.
• Aggregates all AI summaries into one digest.
• Builds an email (subject, HTML, and plain text) that includes titles, links, dates, and the AI summaries, then sends it using SMTP.

Use cases

• SaaS operators: Receive daily updates from product, engineering, or industry RSS feeds with concise AI summaries.
• Automation engineers: Use a ready-made pattern for “RSS → OpenAI summary → email digest” in n8n.
• Research & monitoring: Track multiple sources while keeping emails readable and focused on the newest content.

Technical details

• Schedule Trigger for daily runs
• RSS Read to fetch items from your RSS feed URL
• Code, limit and aggregate to manage batching, remove duplicates, and compile summaries
• OpenAI chat model to generate 2–3 sentence summaries per article snippet
• Email Send using SMTP, with both HTML and plain-text output
• Sticky Note for workflow documentation

Setup in minutes

Add your OpenAI API credential, select the model for summarization, configure SMTP email credentials, set the RSS feed URL and article limit, then update recipients/sender details (toEmail, fromEmail, fromName) and the schedule time.